STS-107 Space shuttle Mission control

Mission control video of STS-107 final moments as viewed from the ground. Lock the Doors. Lock the doors really means secure all the data. Or as they say. I downloaded this video just a day or 2 after the crash from NASA web site. But I can't find it there anymore. So I decided to post it here.

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• sts-107
• disaster
• space
• shuttle
• accident
• lock
• the
• doors
• crash
• NASA
• manned
• program

[TheMorrocmovies]

thos the flight director get fired ?

[syeager9]

@TheMorrocmovies Nobody in the flight control team got fired. They did their jobs the best they could.

[Jascender]

ive noticed that with nasa communication they are so quick to answer a question or each other, i mean its almost instant, crazy

btw who is the guy and woman who were behind where the flight director sits? thanks

[syeager9]

@Jascender What I know is that the woman was an austronaut who flew shutle before. Don't know the name. As communications, "Flight" is a call signl for flight director, GC - call sign for Ground Contrl, who does the tracking.

[sazlinc]

I grew up just miles from the launch pad and when the Flight Director issues the order to "Lock the doors" it means that it has now become an investigation and that Mission Control must secure all data through backup. No outside communications are allowed in and nothing leaves. Every accident including challenger followed this procedure. Once it is determined that there was a breakup of any sort the order is given and only by the Flight Director. Both Houston and Kennedy are given this order.

[syeager9]

@sazlinc Just a matter of semantics. Everybody can understand that nobody really mean locking the physical doors. As other people said, it means that there will be no communications outside the control room, until all the data are secured. At least it's how I understand it.

[frbe0101]

Wow the anxiety and horror of the flight directors body language and face is almost palpable!

[TimeLapseSteve]

Feel bad for that guy.

[basvg1]

@syeager9 

[basvg1]

@Jascender @syeager9 They are Phil Engelhauf, NASA manager, and the Deputy Director of Flight Crew operations, Ellen Ochoa.

[Ripenthon]

@syeager9

GC= Ground control. FIDO=Flight Dynamics Officer. You can check it out at somewhere 01:22 and learn that FIDO made the tracking

[smimot]

Ironic, sad conclusion to this video at 2:20 when the Flight Director's assistant closes the book and they stand there with their heads down. God bless them.

[0720Rico]

Flight director LeRoy Cain did NOT got fired ! He, Flight director Steve Stitch, Capcom Charlie Hobaugh and the others in the control room did what they could do !

LeRoy who is today The Charman of the Mission Management Team in Houston, one of the highest positions in the Shuttle Program led the following mission STS 114 as the ascent/entry flight director and Steve Stitch was ascent/entry flight director fot a lot of missions after that. So please stop saying that LeRoy was fired !!!!

[0720Rico]

@Jascender The man was Phil Engelauf who was chief of the mission operations directorate and the lady was Ellen Ochoa who was the chief of the flight crew operations directorate.

[vagabond142]

When the call "Lock the doors" is made, the doors ARE physically locked. Flight control is from that moment on an investigation scene and nothing, absolutely NOTHING, can enter or leave the room. Paper, hard disks, data, all of it is collected. No phone calls are made. Any non-critical network to the outside world is physically disconnected so that NOTHING changes in the room. It is THAT serious.

[ForensicsOnTheScene]

Everyone looks horrified and like they want to cry... so sad. :(

[laronmaron98]

@knightryderrwn,

Sorry...below I had said "Lock the doors" was the worst phrase Flight Controllers can use in their careers.

I meant, of course, Flight Directors.

"Lock the doors" is a phrase ONLY the Flight Director gets to make. Everyone else just listens and obeys.